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The Stormy Daniels Case Made Easy: Contract Law for Porn Stars
Apr 24, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 81 81 recommendations | email to a friend
by   Bill Cafaro In Stormy Daniels v. Donald J. Trump, Michael Cohen, and the LLC that paid her the $130,000 in hush money, in   federal court in Los Angeles , she is asking the court to let her ou...
The Stop Sexual Harassment in NYC Act
Apr 24, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 66 66 recommendations | email to a friend
A New Law to Further the Prevention of Sexual Harassment in NYC Workplaces The New York City Council recently passed legislation called the Stop Sexual Harassment in NYC Act. If Mayor Bill de Blasi...
SPRING SAFETY TIPS FOR MOTORISTS, PEDESTRIANS AND BICYCLISTS
Apr 19, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 232 232 recommendations | email to a friend
As the weather warms up, people take to the road and want to spend more time outdoors. In particular, an increasing number of bicyclists and pedestrians join the thoroughfares, and motorists need t...
Employee Salary Histories
Apr 19, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 68 68 recommendations | email to a friend
Can Employers Ask Employees About their Salary History? On May 4, 2017, the New York City Council passed a bill that limited what an employer can ask job candidates about their salary history, comp...
What Employers Should Know About the New York Women’s Equality Act
Apr 13, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 366 366 recommendations | email to a friend
Clarifications for Employers for Women in the Workplace In June of 2014, the Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York signed amendments to the New York State Human Rights Law, which bolstered civil rights...
Wish You Had a Case Against Harvey Weinstein? Maybe Not
Apr 05, 2018 | 1 1 comments | 467 467 recommendations | email to a friend
The parent company of Weinstein Co.filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware on March 20, 2018. Before that, Eric Schneiderman, the New York Attorney General, had filed a lawsuit again...
How Does the New York Compassionate Care Act Affect Employers?
Apr 05, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 58 58 recommendations | email to a friend
The New York Compassionate Care Act (NYCCA) protects patients who are certified to use medical marijuana from being subject to criminal or civil marijuana charges. We live in an age where some stat...
MORE ABOUT EMPLOYEE WAGE DEDUCTIONS
Mar 30, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 87 87 recommendations | email to a friend
by   Stephen D. Hans As an employer, have you ever wondered if a wage deduction you made was legal? New York Labor Law establishes what is legal and what is not for wage deductions. If you have que...
RESTAURANT INDUSTRY: FAQS ABOUT TIPS
Mar 30, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 478 478 recommendations | email to a friend
by   Stephen D. Hans Owners in the restaurant industry often have questions about tips. As a restaurant owner, it’s important to know your rights and responsibilities regarding tips so you can avoi...
A Renaissance Woman In New York City. Interview With LindaAnn LoSchiavo
Mar 18, 2018 | 2 2 comments | 56 56 recommendations | email to a friend
  An interview by Tiziano Thomas Dossena She is the optimal example of a  Renaissance woman  and a  New Yorker  combined: humble but determined, soft spoken but direct, with a genial attitude not u...

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Stopping terror
Dear Editor, Vehicle attacks against innocents civilians in Jerusalem, Istanbul, Berlin, London, Nice, Brussels and now Barcelona cause world uproar following the attacks except the ones in Israel....
Aug 30, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 154 154 recommendations | email to a friend
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Tear it down
Dear Editor, At the center of the chaos in Charlottesville is a statue memorializing the Confederacy’s top general, Robert E. Lee, which was presented to the city in 1924 at a Confederate reunion. ...
Aug 23, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 178 178 recommendations | email to a friend
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Mansplaining Lee
Dear Editor, General Robert E. Lee, who graduated the U.S. Military Academy second in his class, remains an American hero despite his role in the Confederacy. As a native Virginian, General Lee is ...
Aug 23, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 179 179 recommendations | email to a friend
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Kicking the can
Dear Editor, Is it coincidence that Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed to raise New York Thruway tolls in 2020 after the election in 2018? To pay back the $1.6 billion federal loan that helped finance ...
Aug 23, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 164 164 recommendations | email to a friend
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Inspect city trees
Dear Editor, The recent accident in which an Elm tree fell and injured a mother and her three children in Central Park due to root rot should be a wakeup call for the Parks Department to begin imme...
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A Confederate stand
Dear Editor, Monuments and plaques of confederate notables like Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson have been taken down in the Bronx and Brooklyn, and there is a push to rename some streets. In my...
Aug 23, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 165 165 recommendations | email to a friend
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'White' House
Dear Editor, Over the past few years, President Donald Trump has bashed Anderson Cooper, the family of a Muslim military veteran who was killed in action, Whoopi Goldberg, Nordstrom, opinion polls,...
Aug 16, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 189 189 recommendations | email to a friend
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Ramp up
Dear Editor, Kudos to Councilman Rory Lancman and Assemblyman Michael Simanowitz for getting funds to build a wheelchair ramp, which allows P.S. 201 to regain its status as a polling place. The Pom...
Aug 16, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 188 188 recommendations | email to a friend
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Anti-American
Dear Editor, I am appalled and quite disturbed by the news that violence erupted on Saturday in Charlottesville. Americans hating Americans demonstrates to the world that we don't practice what we ...
Aug 16, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 184 184 recommendations | email to a friend
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Scared president
Dear Editor, Hundreds of alt-right activists, neo-Nazis and white nationalist extremists descended on Charlottesville last Saturday in what may have been the largest hate-gathering of its kind in d...
Aug 16, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 188 188 recommendations | email to a friend
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Straight shooter
Dear Editor, The modern-day conservative movement's founding father, the late Arizona Senator and 1964 Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, would have been disappointed in President D...
Aug 16, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 188 188 recommendations | email to a friend
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RIP Glen Campbell
Dear Editor, Country singer Glen Campbell was a true music icon in the entertainment world for more than 50 years. With such classic songs as "Rhinestone Cowboy," “Wichita Lineman" and "Galveston,"...
Aug 16, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 178 178 recommendations | email to a friend
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Sack Blaz
Dear Editor, We elected Mayor Bill de Blasio to run our city, not run away from it. His recent jaunt to Hamburg was just the latest in a series of overseas trips in which he tried to position himse...
Aug 08, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 205 205 recommendations | email to a friend
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Sell off PA
Dear Editor, Governors Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo's replacement of Port Authority executive director Pat Foye with New York State Special Counsel for Interagency Initiatives Rick Cotton, and C...
Aug 08, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 204 204 recommendations | email to a friend
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Why debt?
Dear Editor, We are the richest country in the world, so why are we in debt for $20 trillion? The answer is simple: we have bad financial management. All this debt is, for the most part, unconstitu...
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